California Biographies
Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm
FRED W. LOEBER. Son of John and Caroline Sommerlatt Loeber, was born in Baltimore, Maryland,
November 5, 1857. He attended the common schools of his native county and graduated from Newton
Academy of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1873. He then began book-keeping for his father, and school
teaching, which he followed till 1876. He then came to California, and for one year traveled through
the State in search of a location. In May, 1877, he came to Napa County, and took charge of the Nook
Farm at Rutherford. In May, 1878, he settled where he now lives, and has since been engaged in
raising, breeding and training horses, and has now some of the most promising colts in the whole
county. Married February 5, 1880, Miss Alice M. Griffith, who was born February 5, 1862, in Sonoma
County, and by this union they have one child, Joy May, born November 21, 1880.